Bombacoideae

Subfamily of flowering plants

Bombacoideae

Cortex of juvenile Ceiba pentandra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malvales
Family:	Malvaceae
Subfamily:	Bombacoideae Burnett, 1835

Bombacoideae is a subfamily of the mallow family, Malvaceae. It contains herbaceous and woody plants. Their leaves are alternate, commonly palmately lobed, with small and caducous stipules. The flowers are hermaphroditic and actinomorphic; the calyx has 5 sepals united at the base, which are not accompanied by an epicalyx (involucel). The corolla has 5 free petals and an androecium of numerous stamens, typically with free filaments which are not fused in a staminal tube (column). The pollen is smooth and the ovary superior and pluricarpellate. The fruits are schizocarpous or capsular.

Genera

Adansonia L. - baobabs
Aguiaria Ducke
Bernoullia Oliv.
Bombax L.
Camptostemon Mast.
Catostemma Benth.
Cavanillesia Ruiz & Pav.

Ceiba Mill.
Chiranthodendron Larreat.
Eriotheca Schott & Endl.
Fremontodendron Coville
Gyranthera Pittier
Huberodendron Ducke
Lagunaria (DC.) Rchb.

Matisia Humb. & Bonpl.
Neobuchia Urb.
Ochroma Sw.
Pachira Aubl.
Patinoa Cuatrec.
Pentaplaris L.O.Williams & Standl.
Phragmotheca Cuatrec.

Pseudobombax Dugand
Quararibea Aubl.
Rhodognaphalon (Ulbr.) Roberty
Scleronema Benth.
Septotheca Ulbr.
Spirotheca Ulbr.
Uladendron Marc.-Berti^[1]

Classification

Some taxa in this subfamily were previously grouped under the now-obsolete family Bombacaceae, as recent phylogenetic research has shown that Bombacaceae as traditionally circumscribed (including tribe Durioneae) is not a monophyletic group. Camptostemon, Lagunaria, Pentaplaris and Uladendron might more appropriately be placed in Malvoideae, as might the tribe Matisieae (Matisia, Phragmotheca and Quararibea).

References

^ "GRIN Genera of Malvaceae subfam. Bombacoideae". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2017-07-22.